Item Detail
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4474
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4
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31
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English
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Mormon 'Deliverance' and the Closing of the Frontier
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1992
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18
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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137-52
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This is a reprint of the Tanner Lecture given at the 1991 MHA meetings. 'The closing date of the frontier has a unique meaning to Latter-day Saints because by 1890 eastern America had steadily closed in around them and compelled such drastic changes in Mormon thought and action that the Church would never be the same again. Without a new frontier to which to retreat, Mormons had no place to move. They found themselves defenseless. The only deliverance seemed to be statehood, in the hope that it would give them enough self-government to protect their institutions.
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A Mormon Town : One Man's West
'A Place Prepared' : Joseph, Brigham and the Quest for Promised Refuge in the West
Bearding Leone and Others in the Heartland of Mormon Historiography
Change Engulfs a Frontier Settlement : Ogden and Its Residents Respond to the Railroad
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Faithful History : Hazards and Limitations
From Frontier Activism to Neo-Victorian Domesticity : Mormon Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Jacob Hamblin, Apostle to the Lamanites, and the Indian Mission
Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and a Religious Tradition
Juanita Brooks : The Mormon Historian as Tragedian
Literary Form and Historical Understanding : Joseph Smith's First Vision
Mormon Angles of Historical Vision : Some Maverick Reflections
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Migration and Settlement after 1875
New Light on an Old Hypothesis : The Ohio Origins of the Revelation on Eternal Marriage
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Quest for Refuge : An Hypothesis as to the Social Origins and Nature of the Mormon Political Kingdom
Steaming Through : Arrangements for Mormon Emigration from Europe, 1869-1887
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Limits of Learning in Pioneer Utah
The Mormon Gathering
The Mormons
The Mormon Ward : Congregation or Community?
The New England Origins of Mormonism Revisited
The Overland Journey to Zion
The Place of Joseph Smith in the Development of American Religion : A Historiographical Inquiry
The Political Kingdom as a Source of Conflict
The Prophet Puzzle : Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Rise of Mormonism in the Burned-over District : Another View